sentencing commission and america's largest service group for prison guards. what the bill o'reillies of the world fail to acknowledge is that these blanket solutions are not applied evenly so the rhetoric is not fitting the reality. drugs haven't gone away. even though the united states is only 5% of the world population, we have 25% of its prisoners, the highest incarceration rate in the world. our prisons are dangerously overcrowded, half filled with people who didn't commit violent crimes. instead of any rehabilitation towards drug felons, we take minor drug felons and drop them back into a world that withholds jobs and housing. additionally, due in part to the sentencing for crack versus powder cocaine, racial disparities have resulted in more black men being incarcerated than more enslaved in 1850. african-americans are sent to prison at time times white even though five times as many whites are using drugs as african-americans and plus they serve as much time in prison for a nonviolent offense. joining me now is a spiritual adviser to president obama an